Neofusicoccum australe

Neofusicoccum australe
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Botryosphaeriales
Family:	Botryosphaeriaceae
Genus:	Neofusicoccum
Species:	N. australe
Binomial name
Neofusicoccum australe Slippers, Crous & M.J. Wingf. 2004
Synonyms
Fusicoccum australe Botryosphaeria australis

Neofusicoccum australe is a fungus species in the genus Neofusicoccum . ^[1] It is responsible for a grapevine trunk disease.

A 2009 survey of endophytic fungi on woody species at two tuart woodlands of Southwest Australia (ecoregion), sampling acacia Acacia cochlearis , A. rostellifera , the sheoak Allocasuarina fraseriana , peppermint Agonis flexuosa , Banksia grandis , Eucalyptus marginata , sandalwood Santalum acuminatum and nominate species Corymbia calophylla (tuart), found around three quarters of isolates were taxa of the family Botryosphaeriaceae, eighty percent of which was this species. ^[2]

References

1. Crous, P. W.; Slippers, B; Wingfield, M. J.; Rheeder, J; Marasas, W. F.; Philips, A. J.; Alves, A; Burgess, T; Barber, P; Groenewald, J. Z. (2006). "Phylogenetic lineages in the Botryosphaeriaceae". Studies in Mycology. 55: 235–253. doi:10.3114/sim.55.1.235. PMC   2104729 . PMID   18490983.
2. Taylor, K; Barber, PA; St J Hardy, GE; Burgess, TI (March 2009). "Botryosphaeriaceae from tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala) woodland, including descriptions of four new species". Mycological Research. 113 (Pt 3): 337–53. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2008.11.010. PMID   19070663.

External links

• Neofusicoccum australe in Index Fungorum
• "Neofusicoccum australe". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).